Steve Magness
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So for example, you know, often if you look at advice given for obtaining success in the workplace or the sports life, the advice is centered around things like going all in, being obsessive, finding that thing that you're so passionate about that you can't stop. But what research tends to show us is that in the real world, that's not actually what the most successful people experience.
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So for example, Nobel-winning prize scientists have more outside hobbies and interests than those scientists a couple rungs below. If you look at entrepreneurs, there was a wonderful study on 5,000 entrepreneurs that found that those that kept their day job tended to perform better than those who quit initially and went all in.
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So in your life, I would say instead of focusing narrowly, we need to create a robust and broad sense of self or mic. So that means not just saying, I am a podcast host and this is all that I do,
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but realizing that you have hobbies, you have interests, you have these other things that provide status and significance because what that does is it allows you to perform out of a place of joy and exploring your potential instead of fear of like, oh gosh, this is it. If I don't nail this interview, it's not I failed at this podcast, but I am a failure myself.
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It is. And in fact, there's some wonderful research that shows us that we tend to move towards this direction partially because of the culture around us. So especially in the US, our culture is that success is self-defining. For much of history, we brushed off our failures. So for instance, in ancient Greece or ancient Rome, They said they blamed the god of crops if their crops failed.
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That was to put a little bit of space between their activity and the event, the failure, so that they'd try again. In the 1900s, what researchers found is that with the implementation of bank credit, the We actually had to judge people. So banks labeled people good for nothing, meaning they weren't going to be able to pay back the loan.
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And ever since then, the introduction of moving towards like, I am a failure if I can't do the job or complete the success increased in our vocabulary. So you can see it as this internalization of the, you know, making success or failure a virtue.
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First off, the key is it's really hard. If what got you there, it's really hard to pull away from it because you're probably thinking, well, I've had some success. I've been pretty good at what I do here.
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But if you look at, for example, when I talk to a wide range of Olympic athletes and then some research actually on Olympic swimmers, what generally tends to happen to us is the kind of narrow world gets us going. But at some point, we face adversity, we face failure, we face something that kind of throws us for a loop.
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And what research tells us and what the Olympians I've talked to told us is if they went that path and they doubled down, It tended to end poorly, right? They didn't perform better. They started to see their pursuit as a job and then a chore. But what researchers found is if they shifted their mindset from this performance view and towards a quest view, meaning It's partially about the result.
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Yeah, the result matters, but it's also about the journey. It's what I'm discovering about myself and my team and my friends and family along the way that also matters. What that does is free you up a little bit. So on an individual level, what that means is I'm not asking you to go...
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you know, from I care about outcomes and results to Zen monk on the other end of the spectrum, what I'm asking you to do is find small ways to let go just a little bit. So instead of having outcome orientated goals, start switching towards process-orientated goals. Research shows that this will stoke our intrinsic motivation and allow us to have more resilience over the long haul.
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What's a process-orientated goal? It's essentially looking at, yeah, where are you trying to go? What you actually want to achieve? Defining those steps. What are the things and activities you need to get there? And then just forget about the outcome whatsoever and just keep coming back to those steps or the process. Uh, that is the important part.
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Yeah, absolutely. So let's use athletics, sports. It's the easiest way to do this. So let's say you want to win the state championship. That is an outcome goal. Maybe you have to run a certain time or swim a certain time. That could be also the goal as well. But that is defining the outcome.
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Instead, what you say is maybe with your coach or your teammates, you say, okay, what are the steps that I need to take that give me the best shot to get there? And those steps might be, well, I need to be in the pool training five days a week for an hour long.
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I need to maybe twice a week decide that I need to do some strength training or I need to hire a sports psychologist to meet with them once a month. Whatever those steps are that give you the best shot, that's what you need to define as the goal and the focus. And then when you complete your season, you don't look back.
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and say did i win the state championship or not you say did i follow my process if i followed my process then i did the things that i needed to give myself a shot and win or lose like that's all i can ask for that seems like that might be hard to do if you're somebody who is more results oriented to not look back and go damn i lost the championship i was this close Thank you. Thank you.
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So some wonderful research showed that when we try to lift a heavy box by ourselves, we judge it to be about 15 pounds heavier than if we just have a friend nearby. The same goes if we're standing at the bottom of a very steep hill. If it's you alone, you're going to judge that hill to be about seven to eight degrees steeper than if it's you with a friend.
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When we feel connected, when we feel secure in our world and our sense of belonging, it shifts how we see these challenges.
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So, for example, Nobel-winning prize scientists have more outside hobbies than those scientists a couple rungs below. If you look at entrepreneurs, those that kept their day job tended to perform better than those who quit initially and went all in.